Sentence examples for under detention for from inspiring English sources
When Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi and her party won the 1990 elections, the generals simply tossed out the results and put her under detention for much of the next two decades.
Senior Gen. Than Shwe, the man who effectively ran the regime in recent years, kept Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi under detention for most of the past two decades.
After the declaration of martial law last fall, he was held there under detention for four months, working out on his treadmill, writing resistance poetry and receiving occasional visitors said to be family members.
That was 13 years ago, during a temporary period of freedom from house arrest, and Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi was putting into words the dynamic that has kept her under detention for most of the past two decades.
He was asked endless questions in 10 days under detention, for hours every day ― questions that he has no answers for.
" I'm a bit paranoid, but that's no reason for keeping me under detention for more than ten years.
"He's been under secret detention for a long time, since he tried to enter China last year.
The government said the three officials were placed under criminal detention for abuse of power in allowing illegal construction activities to spark a huge fire at a 28-story apartment complex in the central part of Shanghai.
They also noted that of the 6,000 or so remaining Palestinian prisoners in Israel, hundreds were being held without being charged while others were held under administrative detention for crimes amounting to political activism.
Human Rights Watch says that at least 16 activists from Beijing and Jiangxi province have been put under criminal detention for publicly calling on the government to require officials to disclose their assets, despite the country's leader, Xi Jinping, announcing a crackdown on corruption.
Mr Chan, whose father Jackie was named an official "Narcotics Control Ambassador" by Chinese police in 2009, had been put under "criminal detention" for the suspected crime of "providing a shelter for others to abuse drugs", Beijing police said.
